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15 Photos That Take You Back: A Glimpse of Life as It Was

A father is greeted by his family after returning home from work, Fairfield County, Connecticut, 1949.

 

100 year old lady grinding coffee in her kitchen, Pitsburgh, April 1953

 

Group of high schoolers walk to prom (or similar formal event) with their dates, Brenham, Texas, May of 1962.

 

A picture taken in the 1940s teaching young ladies how to have good posture which was a part of the school curriculum.

 

Young woman with puffy sleeves giving a heck of a sideways look, circa 1890s.

 

5 generation photo from 1902

 

Migrants from Florida to New york in a stop in North Carolina, 1940.

 

Marriage proposal at a party, from 1856-1860.

 

Family carving a turkey in the kitchen, December of 1959

 

In 1895, a photographer took a picture inside of the ferry in New York

 

Patient at Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, 1852

 

Third grade class. 1958.

 

Two Baylor University students study in their dorm room, 1890s.

 

File clerks working at their electric elevator desks in Prague, former Czechoslovakia, 1937

 

A test screening audience reacting to the Chest-Burster scene in ‘Alien’ (1979)

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